Remember Arc

The Remember Arc covers the events surrounding the Remember.exe games posted on Within Hubris in 2013. While this isn't wholly a canon arc of the Johnisdead story, the games and events surrounding them are still tangentially connected to the ARG and will be documented below.

April 21st, 2013

• At an unknown time, a user named "BEN" contacted the player Crash. While the contents of this conversation are unknown, it is said that "BEN" was posting in a manner similar to "BEN" from Jadusable's Ben Drowned ARG. "BEN" gave Crash a specific time to "come see him". This message was presumably accompanied by a Mediafire link that contained a download link for a file named "Remember.exe".
• At an unknown time, the player Crash unfortunately had to leave early, missing the time initially set up to meet "BEN".
• At 5:30 PM, "BEN" joined the Within Hubris Chatango - a livechat hosted on the Within Hubris message board. They were now going by the name "BE". "BE" proceeded to share the download link for Remember.exe with several players in the chatroom.
• At an unknown time, the player HeartlessMasterZ began playing Remember.exe.

4/21/13 - HeartlessMasterZ's Playthrough

The details of HeartlessMasterZ's playthrough aren't fully known. It is implied that they encountered something within the game that related it back to Jadusable's Ben Drowned ARG, however. Upon attempting to exit the game, a loud-scream sound played as the following text appeared:

You shouldn't have done that

After this, HeartlessMasterZ's computer shut down. Upon restarting, HeartlessMasterZ discovered many strange files on their desktop. While the full contents of these files are unknown, they stitched together the "strange parts" of them into the following block of code:

2Sz8Dm5L19SO575R8BaCDUJMBzoaP2CoeSsMEvQrL9G5XzoCi5ksizKf5DRdN5dpg6Nblhw3nRQesAnzyIuQQ0ZlSxQgQoJAusY6pzvYs4YKwkB8GkYjGKmB

Summary

• The full details of HeartlessMasterZ's playthrough are unknown, though it is implied they encountered something that related the game back to Jadusable's Ben Drowned ARG.
• Attempting to exit the game caused it to emit a scream-like sound as the words "You shouldn't have done that" appeared.
• The player's computer shut down on its own. Upon restarted, many strange files were discovered. The player stitched together ciphers from each of them into "2Sz8Dm5L19SO575R8BaCDUJMBzoaP2CoeSsMEvQrL9G5XzoCi5ksizKf5DRdN5dpg6Nblhw3nRQesAnzyIuQQ0ZlSxQgQoJAusY6pzvYs4YKwkB8GkYjGKmB".

• At an unknown time, the player Seeker began playing Remember.exe.

4/21/13 - Seeker's Playthrough

The details of Seeker's playthrough aren't fully known. At some point, Seeker attempted to click out of the game so they could notify their friends that they were currently playing. This resulted in a jumpscare along with the following text:

You shouldn't have done that

This text was followed by Seeker's username for her computer profile. After this, Seeker's desktop was flooded with various files that all read as follows:

You shouldn't have done that

Seeker's browser and Skype were then closed. Shortly afterwards, her computer was shut down as well.

Summary

• The full details of Seeker's playthrough are unknown.
• Seeker attempted to click out of Remember.exe's window resulting in a jumpscare appearing along with the words "You shouldn't have done that".
• Various files reading "You shouldn't have done that" appeared on Seeker's desktop. Shortly afterwards, her Skype, browser, and computer all shut down.

• At an unknown time, the download link for Remember.exe on Mediafire was removed.
• At 7:11 PM, the player HeartlessMasterZ created a thread for discussing Remember.exe on Within Hubris titled "Remember.EXE mystery".
• At an unknown time, the player Crash uploaded their copy of Remember.exe to a new Mediafire link.

April 22nd, 2013

• At an unknown time, the player Seeker began playing Remember.exe again.

4/22/13 - Seeker's Playthrough

The details of Seeker's playthrough aren't fully known. Upon attempting to boot the game up, a pop-up appeared on Seeker's computer that read as follows:

Leave

Upon attempting to start the game a second time, the Happy Mask Salesman's laugh played as the Elegy Statue appeared on Seeker's desktop. While this was occurring, Seeker was unable to exit the game or open her browser, forcing her to ultimately restart her computer.

Summary

• Upon attempting to boot-up the game, Seeker was met with a simple pop-up that read "Leave".
• Attempting to start the game a second time caused the Happy Mask Salesman to laugh as the Elegy Statue appeared.
• Seeker was unable to close the game or open her browser, forcing her to restart her computer.

Updates

• Screenshots:
The Elegy Statue on Seeker's desktop:

April 24th, 2013

• At an unknown time, players created the Remember.exe Skype Group so that they could stream and study the game together. At the time, this group contained the following members:
123GirlKirby
Alexandre
Acamas / Dekublast
CorsicSeraph56
Draon029
General Knight
HeartlessMasterZ / ragnaron
Mugen Kagemaru
Suscoldis Proxy
TheSeeker / TheSeeker101
TriforceLover
VaguelyKeaton
• At an unknown time, more players began playing Remember.exe. From continued experimentation, players got a sense of what a general playthrough of the game looked like:

4/24/13 - General Playthrough

Upon first booting up the game, a cutscene will play on a black background as white text appears.

I'm glad you've come
We can remember together
Do you remember where it all began?
We've been waiting
Come to us

A clip of the Happy Mask Salesman laughing is briefly shown.

Come to us

The player is then loaded into a field with three buildings in it. One of the buildings contained Link's corpse. When inspected, the following text would appear:

He's not moving anymore...

Another building contained the Elegy Statue sitting in the corner. Approaching it would cause the game world to darken before the player is warped directly in-front of the Elegy Statue. The screen then cuts to black with the following text:

...

The game would then resume, but now in the evening. Stepping outside would reveal the Moon from Majora's Mask looming in the sky. The game world would occasionally shake due to the Moon's presence. The Elegy Statue would also occasionally appear and disappear at random, presumably following the player. The players dubbed this entity "Stalker BEN". Players would eventually notice a beam of light coming down from the sky. Entering it would cause a timer to appear. The timer seemingly displayed numbers at random. This also caused the Happy Mask Salesman to appear. He was sporting an angry look and had his right arm raised outward. Over time, the Happy Mask Salesman would reach out towards the player with his left arm. Looking up would reveal that the Moon was now slowly descending towards the player. After some time, the game would close. Attempting to open it again would result in the Elegy Statue appearing in the game window instead.

Summary